Program

New York City’s 2009 WordCamp is going to be two full days of WordPress-related sessions, announcements and fun. Here’s an overview of what we have in store for you. You can also check out the Speakers page to see who’ll be leading the sessions. Links on the right lead to individual session descriptions and the schedule grid.

SATURDAY: A full day of presentations, workshops and demos related to WordPress. There will be eight (8) tracks running at once (plus unconference sessions), so you can choose the topics that appeal to you. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced user, a blogger or a developer, we’ll have something for you. Including a t-shirt. And lunch.

Newbie – Bring your laptop and we’ll get you a WordPress blog set up before lunch on Saturday.

SUNDAY: In the morning, Saturday session attendees will have a chance to network and participate in various discussion sessions, then will break for lunch at 11:30. Lunch will be on your own in the city. After lunch, attendees will go to Mason Hall Auditorium for the afternoon program:

Ignite Sessions – Get a “Best of WordCamp NYC” experience with some of the more popular presenters from Saturday doing abbreviated versions (5 minutes, 20 slides) of their earlier talks.

WordPress 2.9 Preview – Get a firsthand look at the changes coming in version 2.9, which will be close to release at this time.

Q & A with Matt Mullenweg – Co-founder and project lead of WordPress will talk about the vision for WordPress moving forward and take questions from the audience.

We’re selling two types of tickets to cover all the bases.

Full Pass: This ticket entitles the holder to entry for all sessions on Saturday and Sunday, including Mason Hall. You’ll also get a T-shirt, and lunch on Saturday.

Mini Pass: So you love WordPress but you can’t commit to a full weekend. Why not buy a Mini Pass? This ticket entitles you ONLY to entry for the Sunday afternoon program in Mason Hall beginning at 1pm. This includes the Q&A with Matt Mullenweg. We’ll give you a T-shirt, but you should eat before you come.

Oh, wait! We almost forgot. Bringing all this together is crazy expensive. If WordPress helps you do your job, forms part of your business, or just plain makes you super happy every day, please consider becoming an individual ($250) or consultant ($500) sponsor. These tickets will get you full pass access and goodies, plus a little publicity and public thanks.

If you have a small business, agency, or larger company and would be able to sponsor on a higher level, please visit our Sponsors page for more info before you register, as sponsors at these levels will be registered separately.

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How can we begin to facilitate lateral communication among those of us who want to participate in the “Unconference” sessions? I am wondering how many people attending WordCamp are interested in the Music industry. Could someone create an area where people can begin to let each other know about topics that interest them?

@Ron Suarez: We’ll put up a page for people to start talking about unconference sessions the week before the event, but there will also be session proposals at the event itself…otherwise they’d just be regular conference sessions, not *unconference* sessions.

Just your email. When you arrive at registration, there will be tables set up alphabetically by last name. Just tell them who you are, we’ll look you up, give you the stuff you’ll need, and off you go.

Great news about Media Temple for Newbies, but I need your help. I’d signed up my husband as a Newbie, but he now won’t be able to come – so I’m going to need to cancel his registration. I don’t want to prevent someone else from getting this spot.

Fantastic, I have been trying to convince some people that WordPress can be used as a full blown content management system and could save our agency a lot of time on smaller scale sites. Your CMS session would be ammunition I need….with case studies too! I am excited.

For the Saturday sessions you would need to buy a full pass, since that’s the bullk of the expense of the event (tshirt, lunch, 50+ speakers). Sunday is just unconference, some session recaps, and Matt’s Q&A.

I’d like to sign up – I’m coming for myself but I’ll also be writing an article for the newspaper I write for – The Independent – can I sit in on sessions that aren’t on a specific track or does my registration & badge with my particular track mean I can only attend sessions for that specific track? The interest for the story is mostly in blogging & newbies, and MU. But not sure yet. Thanks!

re: UNCONFERENCE, on October 26, 2009 – @jane said: @We’ll put up a page for people to start talking about unconference sessions the week before the event

It’d be nice to at least have a blank page up soon, so we can have a little lateral communication about “interests” for unconference sessions. It would also be nice to know if their are any time slots for just unconference sessions or if unconference sessions compete with the great lineup of speakers.

I am looking for anybody working with musicians or music labels who wants to talk about using WordPress and BuddyPress in the music industry.

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Shouldn’t need one… CMS track is mostly presentations, not workshops. Plus, we won’t have much juice in terms of wifi, so you’ll be better off focusing on the face to face interactions. Don’t worry about taking notes… we’ll have videos of each session posted at wordpress.tv shortly after the event.

There doesn’t seem to be much discussion of the Unconference. I’ve gone to Camps before so I know how they work, but so far I only see two sessions suggested. This makes me wonder whether it is worth the time to come in for the morning since I don’t know if anyone is showing up. It was surprising to not even see the Unconference mentioned in the program yesterday.